“As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.”
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
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